However, the wreck is also a environmental threat, with as much as 200,000 gallons of heavy fuel oil (about 5,000 barrels) still in its holds, NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries reports.

This was a virtual event hosted by the National World War II Memorial ... Atlantic and the appearance of German U-Boats off America ... recounted U.S. 743rd Tank Battalion’s interception ...

Revisit Baton Rouge’s Harding Field, uncover a German U-Boat in the Gulf of Mexico and talk with the men of the 760th Tank Battalion. This poignant essay on Louisiana’s role in the war salutes ...

Before the widespread use of radar at sea to detect ships, virtually of the boat hunting was done visually. Being low in the water, U-Boats (and really all submarines) could not see very far in ...

The U-boat skipper, Hans-Dieter Heinicke, had a crippled submarine and was headed home when he spotted the juicy allied convoy off the coast of North Carolina. Although Heinicke, 29, had a damaged ...

A team of scientists is searching for the SS Norlindo, a freighter sunk off Florida by a German U-boat in 1942. NOAA Ocean Exploration is backing the mission.

LONDON (AP) — Pat Owtram didn’t need to go to war. It came to her. As the Nazis took control of Germany and Austria, her father hired Jewish refugees to cook and clean at the family home in ...

How German U-boats and wartime blackouts led to a 'surprise hurricane' devastating Houston in 1943 By Jay R. Jordan , Reporter Updated July 29, 2021 1:16 p.m.

As the USS Borie prepared to ram a German U-boat in the early morning hours of Nov. 1, 1943, the sailors on the Navy destroyer braced for impact. Turbulent waters in the north Atlantic Ocean ...

The wreck of the SS Bloody Marsh may have been found off South Carolina, 78 years after torpedoes from a German U-boat sank the ship and killed three crewmen.

They spoke in a combination of German, Austrian German, and English. “Wartime evenings, with petrol rationed, were pretty boring," Owtram, who will turn 101 next month, told The Associated Press ...